Bermondsey

Bermondsey is a district in the borough of Southwark in southeast London, 2.5 miles southeast of Charing Cross. Its name means "Beornmund's Island", and it was once owned by the Knights Templar; in 1353, King Edward III of England built a manor house close to the River Thames in Bermondsey. After the Great Fire of London, it became a well-to-do and urbanized neighborhood, but, by the mid-19th century, Bermondsey became home to notorious slums due to the Industrial Revolution and immigration. It became a manufacturing center, and it riverside warehouses and wharves were heavily damaged during The Blitz of World War II.